The Countdown - 12 to go

One fucking run.
They lost by one fucking run.
They lost by one fucking run to the Gnats.

There's really not much else to say. Two weeks ago, they were finding ways to win. They would rebound from demoralizing losses one night with a great win the next.

Now they are reverting back to last year, to what everyone is predicting and writing about and the whole nine. It's time like this that I'm glad I don't have ESPN...

By the way, the Phillies, like the sharks they are, smelled blood and came back and beat the Braves to take over first place. Good for them. That town needs some positive sports team to rip down and let's face reality, the Eagles can score but they can't defend and will be exposed in the playoffs...

We are now tied for the wild card and 1/2 game behind J-Roll, Chase and HR or K Howard. By the way, who's gonna pay $12 million a year for 4 years to put Pat Burrell in left field.

I did hear about Murphy moving to 2B and I love that move too. I would like to think you could eat that contract, but it will be hard to convince the Wilpons with the fact it's a lot of money and the 10 million they're eating with Wagner.

I could see Oli P getting too expensive, but the Dodgers have bigger fish in the ocean to spend on, like the guy playing left field right now. He started out in San Diego and I don't think they want him back. Seattle is still paying Carlos Silva to suck and the D-Backs need a closer and a power bat, not pitching. San Francisco already has an erractic left-hander and we all remember the last left-hander that pitched well at Shea, then went to Colorado for the money. I mean the school system...

Next Up:
We continue in DC, now with hopes to come away with a split of this four game series. The Mets official website gave me the rookie starter I wrote about yesterday, but luckily for us it was Odalis "Yes, I'm still pitching for money" who spoiled another great performance by Pelfrey.

Now we look to Brandon Knight, according to the site, against Shairon Martis. All I can say is good luck and a note that's obvious to anyone who's seen the Mets over the past four years. As Jose goes, so goes the team.

He got hot. We got hot. He smoked a coke-filled cock for the last two months of last year, we followed suit. The past three games, all losses, the NL hits leader has gone 2-11 with one walk and has only scored three of his 101 runs in the last 10 games.

So if you want to see how the team will do. Just watch the first at-bat. If he works the count and walks or lines a single on the third pitch, look out. If he pops up to shallow right, as Howie Rose says, you can put it in the books.